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International Newsroom Summit

Can a machine replace a journalist’s gut feeling? This is the question Swiss media group Tamedia set out to answer when it built an algorithm to potentially take over the curation process for one of its news apps.

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As BBC World Service Digital Development Editor, Dmitry Shishkin sits at the intersection of editorial and technical initiatives, and, together with his colleagues, is in charge of driving the digital transformation of editorial teams around the world.

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Like many legacy broadcasters, Univision, a Spanish-language TV network targeting the Latino community in the United States, has had to rethink its strategy in the face of online video gaining momentum. Managing Editor and Senior Director of Digital Selymar Colón, who joined the company in 2006, shared key takeaways from the network’s transformation process during WAN-IFRA’s International Newsroom Summit in London in November.

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The Telegraph in the UK has been implementing and experimenting with innovative tools, ranging from interactive embeds to a robot live-blogger, to boost engagement, efficiency and creativity in the newsroom.

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A year ago, The Economist made a big push into social media. The editorial social media team, led by Community Editor Denise Law, works across different platforms to grow readership, and, as Law jokingly points out, make people realise that The Economist is not just catering to men “smoking a cigar and driving an Aston Martin.” In an interview with WAN-IFRA, she explained what her team has been working on during the past year, and shared some tips on building a successful social media strategy.

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“You hear a lot of success stories, and I would say that it's not good to trust them.” Wolfgang Krach, Editor-in-Chief of Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung doesn't believe in the quick fix when it comes to redefining the newsroom. This is something he made abundantly clear during his presentation at WAN-IFRA's International Newsroom Summit in Hamburg.

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In 2013, Hannover, Germany-based MADSACK Mediengruppe opened a new newsroom with a new business model. Called RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) [Editorial Network Germany], it produces content for other publishers' newspapers as well as the group's own – including print-ready pages in three sizes.

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Trying to keep a newsroom up to speed and meet a seemingly never-ending series of challenges while simultaneously cutting costs has become the lot of the modern newsroom leader. Among the newsrooms doing an impressive job of meeting today's demands is Switzerland's 24heures, led by Editor-in-Chief Thierry Meyer.

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Mark Porter, one of the world's top editorial designers, will be at the International Newsroom Summit in Hamburg on 5 October to lead a panel discussion on designing for digital news. In this interview, he highlights how real editorial design can give publishers a competitive edge in their competition with Google, Apple and Facebook.

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It is becoming increasingly clear that news organisations need to think creatively about reaching their digital readers. A session at the International Newsroom Summit on smart new ways to reach your audience provided a range of examples of how news organisation are engaging their readerships beyond their websites. Emma Goodman reports.